Bishop of Civita Castellana and Orte; born at Carrara on 17 Oct. 1668; died there on 1 March 1739.
He obtained the degree in utroque iure at the age of nineteen at the University of Pisa, then practised law in Florence. From 1691 he was in Rome as auditor to Prince Savelli and Cardinal Casini. At twenty-seven he felt the call to the priesthood and, after studying philosophy at the Gregorian University and theology at the Minerva, was ordained priest on 9 Nov. 1698. Highly esteemed by the popes, he was offered the sees of Fidenza and Foligno, Osimo and Cingoli, which he refused. Clement XI succeeded in entrusting to him the united dioceses of Civita Castellana and Orte (1718). In the Roman Council (1725), by mandate of Benedict XIII, he delivered the closing discourse to the admiration of all and was rewarded with the appointment as assistant to the papal throne.
A man of extraordinary zeal, he spiritually renewed his dioceses. In constant contact with the saints of his time (St Paul of the Cross, St John Baptist de Rossi, St Leonard of Port Maurice), he imitated their example. At his death St Leonard pronounced a flattering judgment on the holiness of T. His cause of beatification and canonization was introduced on 23 Dec. 1756 and the decree on his virtues was issued on 5 Aug. 1794.